Sam

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Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Birthday:

November 29

How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?

Shane Spiel Book

How many instruments have you built so far?

What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter at least one meaningful sentence, your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).

Mainly the sound that can be produced from ordinary materials. I also enjoy their simplicity.

Sam replied to Jim Olean (JimO)'s discussion Closing my shop

"Hello JimO,
CBG's aside, very sorry to hear about your health issues. Will put you in our prayer request chain. I'm in the north Florida area and if there is a possibility of traveling through your area I will touch base for sure.
Take care!!"

Sam replied to Sam's discussion Neck Shaping and box notching

"Wow!! Thanks Taff!! That looks great. I will definitely practice with some scrap this week.
Sam"

Taffy Evans replied to Sam's discussion Neck Shaping and box notching

"Hi Sam, there are other ways. You may like this one, it's what I have always done and it is pretty much what has been done with electric guitar bolt-on necks since day one.
Do your radius routing as you normally do then as you come to the area where…"

Sam replied to Sam's discussion Neck Shaping and box notching

" Absolutely!! I will have lits more questions on some upcoming projects. Thanks for the reply. "

BrianQ. replied to Sam's discussion Neck Shaping and box notching

"You just answered your own question 🤣 it happens that way after you say it out loud?"

Sam replied to Southern Ray's discussion Hoping to get some ideas on cigar box storage.

"Hello Southern Ray,
That is a terrific question and I look forward to what the more experienced builders will have to say on this one. I'm in NE Florida and I have boxes tucked away in the house as well as in cabinets in the garage. I'm sure the…"

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Neck Shaping and box notching

Hello All,I have only built about 10 CBG's and with each of those the necks were shaped with hand tools. A 1x2 for the neck with a 1x2 as a back strap. Making the notch in the box was easy enough as everything was square. Today I tried shaping a…

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